Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement

Re:Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement by rtb on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @06:05AM (#10972826)

It's a very religious idea that "the justice system ought to be about meting justice", particularly a Protestant / Christian idea. The very phrase "meting out justice" is a biblical one.

Secular societies are more interested in the outcomes than the moral righteousness of the system.

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Re:Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement by antillean on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @06:23AM (#10972864)

That's an extremely narrow view of "secular".

Not all secular societies or people are consequentalists. Some are at least as interested in the moral righteousness of a system -- in its means, in its processes, in what it does on the way to its ends -- as they are in what that system accomplishes. There are secular humanist deontologists and virtue ethicists.

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